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Something the rest of his party hasnt quite figured out. hes the only republican to win a majority of the popular vote in any of the last six presidential elections. he did it once out of two tries, and he did it largely because of this number, which is how he performed on hispanic voters in 2004. far higher than any other republican in the two elections before or since. george w. bush entering into the immigration debate on the day the house republican caucus discusses the topic. a base that is...

Capital, i feel the press gets a case of steve king fever. theres a sense that because the right flank of the republican party is so vocal, theyre dominating the debate, i tried to read between the lines. i heard this from speaker boehner. he wants to do this on immigration reform. and so i dont think theyre ruling anything out. i dont think theyre ruling out legalization. i think this is going to be a long process, but i won the say its dead. >> thats interesting. steve just made the optimistic...

Toobin and the co-founder of aol, steve case. its a big show tomorrow, well talk to former president bill clinton, and chicago mayor rahm emanuel and john mellencampp and stephen king. up next the top stories in the politico playbook. first bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> we went into last night at a high risk of severe weather. we we highly populated areas, chicago and indianapolis, made it through without any fatalities or widespread injuries. that is a great morning. it was antic...

Libertarians are taking it so far if not for edward snowden. >> do you think he should be charged with a crime or not? is >> i have to say yes, but im glad that he did it anyway. i know that he probably took that into consideration when he made these disclosures. just one more point. its fine for us to say, yes, the government has good intentions when they do this type of surveillance, but i dont think we should give the government the benefit of the doubt. we need to understand what is happenin...

With the immigration debate. so its really interesting to see the president speaking about this surrounded by a coalition of support. as you were saying earlier what i like to call immigration strange bed fellows. you have evangelical leaders and when you look at the debate going on in congress you will see the face of opposition. that is the contrast. >> as you talk about strange bed fellows here, here is steve case who attended the remarks with the president today. steve, great to see you. exp...

Listen to warnings. >> they did here. >> they did. >> i think they did. the only thing that can explain it as you look at these pictures and the devastation, the only thing that can explain a death toll that was actually half of what we heard it was yesterday. >> thought it would double. >> we were told it was going to double from the medical examiners office who, by the way, they need some calculators there. they double counted which, again, caused a lot of heartache for those first 24 to 48 ho...

Unemployment, which is high, but our grow rate is too low, about 2%. the last half century its been more like 3.5%. how do we get unemployment down to 4%. our economic growth rate up to 4%. that would be a much different circumstance in terms of dealing with some of the other difficult issues, the deficit and other things, fundamentally different dynamic if we could get the unemployment down and the growth up, the place to focus is entrepreneurs and part of it is talent. which is why immigration...

Lose and when they win. >> the game is rigged and, you know, you have to keep talking about it until you get to a point where the mantjority of t country says we will not take it any more and we want a fairer deal. >> senator chris murphy, thank you for coming by. >> thank you. >> good luck. >> thank you. >> ben and bob, stick around, please. the founding member of bruce springsteens e. street band will join us, steven van zandt. also joining us is marsha blackburn and chuck todd. steve case w...

Bridges between those worlds and created a product to link those two worilds. >> you snow is it sam stein was here what he would be saying? >> what. >> echoing steve jobs job saying bill gates would have been a better ceo if he had dopropped assit. >> oh, my lord. >> they both dropped out of college. >> only one dropped acid! >> oh, by the way, zuckerberg doesnt seem to think that may sound good. >> steve case, thank you so much. ahead, peter king opens the door to a preemptive strike against no...

Is that helping to crystallize support within the republican party? >> it is, yes. one aspect, and a group that isnt much discussed, is a group that comes over to the silicon valley, relies on engineers coming from other countries to power that market. we have a jobs crisis in every other place in the country. in sill kon vicon valley there shortage ever engineers and the caps on h 1 b visas is lower than it was in 2000. thats why you see people like steve case and mark zuckerberg who has avoide...